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Candace Owens has responded to Ben Shapiro's entreaty to debate him about Israel and antisemitism, suggesting that she would be willing to do so on a neutral platform after Shapiro proposed doing the debate on his eponymous show.

Owens, who recently left Shapiro's The Daily Wire amidst a slew of disagreements over subjects relating to the Jews,  began the interaction by challenging the Jewish pundit to a debate—an inversion of one of Shapiro's own trademarks, turning the tables against Owens' former colleague, who is famous for challenging progressive adversaries to debate him.

“I would like to debate Ben Shapiro on Israel and the *current* definition of antisemitism. Can somebody make that happen?” Owens asked on X.

Shapiro responded with his own proposal, which he claims he offered Owens over a month ago while she was still a part of The Daily Wire.

“Sure, Candace,” Shapiro said. “I texted you on February 29th offering this very thing. Let's do it on my show this Monday at 5pm at our studios in Nashville; 90 minutes, live-streamed.”

However, the terms of Shapiro's proposal were unacceptable to Owens, who proposed an alternative platform for the interaction.

“I’m sure you can appreciate why I’d prefer to keep this off the Daily Wire platform—as well as the true reason why we were never able to make any discussion happen,” Owens said. “Let’s choose a neutral, trustworthy platform. I vote [Patrick Bet-David].”